Maria Isakova Bennett

Maria, from Liverpool, works as a teacher, writer, and artist. She collaborates on projects in galleries on Merseyside, runs workshops for Mersey Care, and recently launched a stitched poetry journal, Coast to Coast to Coast, co-edited with Michael Brown. Maria has been previously awarded first prize in the Ver Open Poetry Award judged by Clare Pollard, and received a Northern Writers’ Award in June. Her pamphlet, all of the spaces, has just been published by Eyewear.